The Madman's Middle Way: Reflections On Reality Of The Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel

Book Summary


Gendun Chopel is considered the most important Tibetan intellectual of the twentieth century. His life spanned the two defining moments in modern Tibetan history: the entry into Lhasa by British troops in 1904 and by Chinese troops in 1951. Recognized as an incarnate lama while he was a child, Gendun Chopel excelled in the traditional monastic curriculum and went on to become expert in fields as diverse as philosophy, history, linguistics, geography, and tantric Buddhism. Near the end of his life, before he was persecuted and imprisoned by the government of the young Dalai Lama, he would dictate the Adornment for Nagarjuna

Book Details


Book Name The Madman's Middle Way: Reflections On Reality Of The Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel
Author Donald S. Lopez Jr, Lopez Donald S. Jr.
Publisher University Of Chicago Press (Dec 2005)
ISBN 9780226493169
Pages 258
Language English
Price 1384
 
 

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